"Provides a fulfilling and imaginative traversal of the many landscapes of touch. Constance Classen's deft introductions provide both context for, and commentary on, a constellation of texts - academic and literary, historical and contemporary - whose appearance makes a major contribution to the burgeoning study of the senses."--Tim Barringer, Yale University "Get your hands on...(展开全部)

"Provides a fulfilling and imaginative traversal of the many landscapes of touch. Constance Classen's deft introductions provide both context for, and commentary on, a constellation of texts - academic and literary, historical and contemporary - whose appearance makes a major contribution to the burgeoning study of the senses."--Tim Barringer, Yale University "Get your hands on...(展开全部)

Not since "The Thorn Birds" has Colleen McCullough written a novel of such broad appeal about a family and the Australian experience as "The Touch." At its center is Alexander Kinross, remembered as a young man in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and a godless rebel. But when, years later, he writes from Australia to summon his bride, his Scotti...(展开全部)

Spanning nearly fifty years, from the 1860s through to the turn of the century, "The Touch" tells the story of Alexander Kinross, who flees from a childhood of poverty in Scotland to make his fortune in the Australian and the American gold fields. In the process, he meets the woman he loves but can never marry - and marries a woman who can never love him. When Alexander Kinross...(展开全部)

丹尼尔 • 凯斯（Daniel Keyes，1927—2014） 作家，雨果奖和星云奖得主，俄亥俄大学英文系教授，擅长在小说中探讨人类最精微、最深层的心理问题。 漫威漫画草创时期他与斯坦 • 李（Stan Lee Stan Lee ）共事，因《献给阿尔吉侬的花束》获雨果奖和星云奖。1981—1981年出版的《24 个比利》获拉斯维兹小说奖、日本星云奖。他还著有《比利战争》《5个莎莉》等多部探讨多重人格分裂的作品，以及描写核事故的惊悚小说《危尘》。凯斯擅长以医疗背景描写人类心理，他的名字几乎与“精神分析小说”画上等号。 2000 年，美国科幻协会向凯斯颁发年度荣誉作家奖（Author Emeritus Author Emeritus)，以表彰他在医疗科幻领域的成就。丹尼尔 • 凯斯的所有作品在全球有30多个语种的版本，累计销量超过千万册。2014年6月...(展开全部)

The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.

The Book of Questions may be the only publication that challenges and changes the way readers view the world, without offering a single opinion of its own. Posing 265 questions, "The Book of Questions" is bound to provoke hours and hours of thought.

An insider's view of court life and culture during the Renaissance, here is the handiwork of a 16th-century diplomat who was called upon to resolve the differences in a war of etiquette among the Italian nobility. The ultimate resource on aristocratic manners, it remains the most definitive account of life among the Renaissance nobility.